The U.S. Institute for Peace has filed a grievance in opposition to Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity this week, hoping to stop President Trump from taking up the impartial, nonprofit assume tank.
USIP filed early Wednesday a proper grievance and an emergency movement for a short lived restraining order with the U.S. District Courtroom for the District of Columbia. The grievance targets DOGE, Mr. Trump and performing USIP President Kenneth Jackson.
The grievance says the short-term restraining order is critical to stop DOGE from accessing the institute’s delicate laptop methods.
“The institute understands that DOGE has satisfied a Georgia-based cybersecurity skilled to drive to the Institute’s headquarters to assist DOGE break by the security measures defending USIP’s laptop methods,” the grievance reads. “If allowed to succeed, Defendants will irreparably injure the Institute.”
The grievance additionally says that DOGE staff could also be bodily damaging USIP workplaces. USIP attorneys included a photograph of an overflowing trash can stuffed with USIP monetary paperwork marked “shred.”
The grievance echoes statements made by USIP leaders who say that Mr. Trump’s Feb. 19 govt order concentrating on the institute is illegal.
“Plaintiffs search the quick intervention of this Courtroom to cease Defendants from finishing the illegal dismantling of the Institute and irreparably impairing Plaintiffs’ means to carry out their very important peace promotion and battle decision work as tasked by Congress,” the grievance provides.
The submitting follows the contentious takeover of the USIP workplace constructing close to the Nationwide Mall on Monday. DOGE staff, together with Mr. Jackson, gained entry to the workplaces and evicted USIP employees and former president George Moose.
DOGE’s takeover was finishing up Mr. Trump’s govt order from final month, which focused USIP and different smaller establishments. Earlier than Monday’s takeover, DOGE staff and FBI brokers tried to realize entrance into USIP’s workplaces Friday however had been turned away by the institute’s attorneys.
